Bear with me : #shelterinplace Day 56 This pandemic has brought into sharp focus what we need and what we only want. My wants are few. My needs are fewer. I drive a German car I bought in my first year in practice, 23 years ago. The British fountain pen I write with was gifted upon graduation from medical school more than 30 years ago. The designer handbag I carry was bought for my mother at an Italian airport, 40 years ago. The watch I wear was bought on a trip to Switzerland, in the previous century. If a tree falls in a jungle and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? If a person dresses up and no one is around to see it, does it make sense? I’ve got my pajamas on, I’ve taken my contacts out, the only diamond sparkling is perched on my nose, the size of which is measured in decimal points. In the past 8 weeks we’ve whittled down the bare necessities in life to ... food. (And WiFi). I no longer feel the need to keep up appearances. But . . . I want to sip a steaming cup of coffee in a sidewalk cafe by Sacre Coeur. I want to have high tea on High Street in Hampstead. I want to have chaat and chai in Connought Place. I want to have kimchi in Korea. “And don't spend your time lookin' around, For something you want that can't be found, When you find out you can live without it, And go along not thinkin' about it, I'll tell you something true, The bare necessities of life will come to you” I’m not one to stay at home. I’m accustomed to going to town on most weekends. I stray even further away on school breaks. I miss my meandering ways. Turkish delights in Turkey... Greek yogurt in Greece... Swiss chocolate in Switzerland... Pad Thai in Thailand... Italian ices in Italy... #lifeinthetimeofcorona#loveinthetimeofcorona#food#tea#chai#barenecessities#travel#traveller#traveltheworld#travelphotography#travelholic#travelindia#travelwithfamily#travelwithkids#foodtravel#foodtravelstories #love #life#writersofinstagram#writersofindia#indianwriters#writer#quarantine#quarantinelife#quarantinestories #FlashbackFriday

Dard-e-Dil 💔 Khel Khel Mein and Karz . . . Doosra Aadmi and Do Dooni Char . . . Laila Majnu and Love Aaj Kal . . . Kabhi Kabhi to Kapoor and Sons . . . Social distancing in the time of superstardom ... He had come to our school in October 1973. It was after the release of Bobby. He was in Dalhousie shooting for some unreleased movie with Rita Bahaduri. Here was this superstar and we were ordered by the nuns to stay far from him, not to bother him, to let him walk around our school unencumbered. Memories of a school outing to the cinema hall and watching his movies ... Khel Khel Mein ... The wonder years in Jalandhar ... Sitting in a rickshaw and going from one cinema hall to another. From a 3 to 6 show in one movie hall to another for a 6 to 9 show ... Hum Kisse Se Kum Nahin to Amar Akbar Anthony ... Sixteen candles ... Spending my entire summer holidays in Punjab as a teenager. A week in Mohali, another in Dharampur, one in Phagwara, ek aur in Wadala. We were sixteen singing ”main solah baras ki tu satrah baras ka”. It was the year of Karz ... Mirror image ... Then we grew up and so did he. His second coming as an older character was just as magnificent. What a pleasure it was to watch Chintuji in and as a Kapoor. My father was turning 90 and was admitted to the hospital. We arranged for a surprise 90th birthday party and realized most of his friends were too invalid themselves to attend. We too took the iconic photo of Singh and daughters since 1927. Kapoor and Sons ... Hamesha se hum Aap Ke Deewane hain 💔 #rishikapoor #childhoodmemories#childhood#hindimovies#hindisongs#hindicinema#hindiactors#love#loveforcinema#life#death#lifeanddeath#loss#grief#indianwriters#writersofindia

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तादाद ... tadad Irfan Khan, 53 Richard Hake, 51 Floyd Cardoz, 59 Actor Journalist Chef All a part of my life. One entertained me often. One informed me daily. One fed me occasionally. All departed life during this quarantine period. Not all to covid-19. The trending hashtag is #gonetoosoon. When is it considered ‘gone too soon’? I was 37 when my mother passed and 53 when my father passed. My mother was not yet 75 and my father had completed 90. Yet I wished for them to have remained in my life longer. Not in my memory but in my living room. I fear for my girls being orphaned before attaining adulthood and self sufficiency. Modern medicine makes it seem like a personal failure if a patient succumbs. We have doubled lifespans in a matter of decades. Even during this pandemic the goal of lockdowns is that each person be given a fighting chance. There is no prevention, there is no cure. It’s becoming abundantly clear that sooner or later we all will get exposed to the virus. Survival depends on supportive care, there being enough beds in the ICU and enough ventilators to let breaths be given and taken artificially. There is a word तादाद ... tadad. It refers to an amount. The amount of time something is meant to exist for. After which amount of time it can no longer exist. Plants have a तादाद. Some redwoods exist for hundreds of years. Some evergreens are cut down come Christmas. Some are planted annually while perennials perchance perish from a lack of sun or rain or an abundance of sun or rain. Animals have a तादाद. Elephants can live past a hundred. Dogs rarely past fifteen. Humans fight with their तादाद. Science is their weapon of choice. But we are often felled. The battle is lost by accident or by disease. #life #death#loss#lifeanddeath#science#health#lifespan#irfankhan#writersofinstagram#writersofindia#indianwriters#writing#writer#hindiwriters#travelphotography#travel#travelling#traveller#switzerland#cemetary#flowers#flowerphotography

Day 28 #shelterinplace “Yeh sama, sama hai yeh pyar ka, Kissi ke intezar ka, Dil na chura le kahin mera, Mausam bahar ka”. There was a time when perhaps we all said “if I had the time” and now when it’s not a question of ‘if’ I am completely non productive. Now that I don’t have to ‘find’ the time I’m not carving out time to do what I had thought I didn’t have the time to. I have come to realize that I read much more whilst waiting in the car for the girls to finish their myriad music lessons and their various sports coaching. . . Nowadays I wake up to the BBC news hour. Go on to half an hour of DW world news. NDTV brings us India info wars on corona. Then it’s two hours of the local NPR radio station. The NY Times is read cover to cover. Exhausted from a multitude of multimedia live updates I take Feroz for a two mile walk and refresh my sight with the signs of spring blooms. I let my mind wander aimlessly during these walks. I realize that I am happy to just stay home with my family. Labeled as being of advanced maternal age and high risk, I will do whatever it takes to sustain my health so that I’m able to nurture my children and facilitate them in attaining a self reliant adulthood. #istayhome #istayhomefor#family#daughters#children#home#dog#love#life #loveinthetimeofcorona #lifeinthetimeofcorona#stayhome#stayhomestaysafe#photooftheday#writersofinstagram

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